3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.

Mostly it's like, I get inspired by something and I want to learn that part of filmmaking, I want to delve into that kind of depth. And leading, also, a lot of people. A lot of people, for two years of their life they follow me, and they believe what I believe in. So that's some responsibility and I'd like to make it worth the effort.

My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.